a ROLE The weather caused numerous delays in the firing of ROMEO. Tho shot was originally scheduled for 11 March, then later changed to 13 Narch, There were to be many more changes of R-Day before the weapon was actually fired, This delay was quite disconcerting and-caused much consternation among all the Air Task Grou» personnel, To fit this particular situation, a familiar squib was borrowed fron Shakespeare: "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou?" Eventually this shot was to be fired on 27 March, During the delay we had to fly the aircraft many times in order to keep them from getting "grounditis." These additional flights cost us many aircraft hours that had not been planned for, These flights proved worthwhile and timely for they brought forth discrepancies that had ace. cumulated due to the aircraft sctting on the ground so long. < A good exa:ple of this was corrosion in the sequence valve of the landing gear side strut on two B-36 aircraft. One of the B-36 shakodown flights, the landing gear system would not cycle properly and there was some concern as to their safc landing. landings were accomplished and discrepancics corrected, Safe Howse, on R-Day another abort of a B36 sample aircraft wasErect) duc to landing goor trouble. repairs, A quick turn around of two hours was accumpliished after minor -~ arWiyHO GL 93